Libera has the only elected female head of state in Africa. I thought that maybe meant the parliament and its leader stood for mroe progressive and equal values, but clearly not. Do they not recognise the great hypocrisy of denying liberty to the citizens of a country called Liberia?

Oh I have no problem with complying to the laws of the country. I just won’t go there. I’ll also cut all my personal funding via charities for the country and others like it, and then hope that the ruling body of the country disintegrates :)

The civilized world, of course not including the US Republican party or Islamic states in general, should condemn these laws and withhold all aid until these countries respect the civil rights of all it’s citizens. Anti gay laws seems to be the norm on the African continent and former British colonies in the West Indies.

This is just plain stupid. The woman was married to one Charles Taylor, the former warlord and President who is now in exile. She didn’t divorce him until after he left office so moral values are obviously high on her agenda (not).

Give it time she will be standing next to Charlie boy in the International Court of Justice in the Hague because she is the same as him in every single aspect. Yet another murderous waste of skin and space in a man made hell.

Putting to death just because of how they were born because of a choose bigotted religious lifestyle is inhumane, disgusting and totally immoral.
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Human Right invove everyone in this world to have the right to be equal and treated with decency and respect, regardless of who they happened to love.
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Those screaming that being Gay is immoral yet call on the genocide of people based on sexual orientation really should look at them self and see how utterly immoral they really are.
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Shameful and these people show up the worst of the human race.

@Jock S Trap…
….Have you seen the place. It is an unbelievable dump….actually a dump is cleaner and better organised. While it is undeniable that the inhabitants of Liberia ( What an Ironic name) are in fact human, they are of the very basest of humans and murder, rape, corruption and chaos are the order of things. I would seriously doubt that there are any gay people still living… nay existing there. I would imagine they have fled long ago.

Probably is in reality most Gay people will live in fear and hide in order to be seen to be ‘normal’ (whatever that is). This kind of culture is cruel and damaging enough with the fear of a death sentence. This people screaming about Gay people being wrong are clearly the immoral ones to cheap life so much when as you sa rape, murder, corruption and choas is so rife in these countries.
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My heart goes to the bravest of souls who will remain and stand up against the opposite, quite possibly with their lives, to make a difference somehow.
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No-one should be fighting to be who they are esp when who we are has nothng to do with anyone else. They just can’t leabe it alone though can they?

@Joss…
…and they will also flee as soon as they are old enough to realise that this despotic hell hole is not for them…one doubts if things will change much for the better in the near or distant future. The vile American xtian evangelists will make sure of that.

… nor (presumably) Asian countries nor Catholic countries nor Eastern European countries nor Mediterranean countries nor Oceanic countries nor … um, who exactly do you end up giving your aid to, if I can ask?! Or were you just stereotyping rhetorically and metaphorically?

Once again Why are these backward bigots and the ignorant superstitious so obsessed by man on man sex – I believe these so called ‘faithful’ have the problem – It can’t be the issue of sodomy Given that anal sex is still the most common form of avoiding pregnancy in sub-Saharan countries –
Unevolved retards!

Because they have been wound up by religious fanatics from America, who have lost their imagined war there, and are focussing on Africa and Asia. They have been fed so many lies about gays, they have become totally paranoid on the issue.

That is so true, and I’m not contradicting you, Scott, but Islam is making great strides in Africa, and the Christians see their main defence against its inroads as being to appear just as fundamentalist and extreme in their beliefs and practices. I fear that dark days lie ahead on that continent, as Western influence wanes in favour of Islamic states and those great upholders of human rights, the Chinese!

She is hardly one that should be talking about anyone else’s morals or ethics. Her husband is on trial for his crimes against humanity; their own son has been charged with attempted murder; another of Charles Taylor’s sons has been sentenced to 97 years for participation in torture. She herself had numerous governments positions, being appointed by her then husband and president. Nepotism and corruption are all around this pontificating bigot.

That’s one your stupider comments on these pages Sam, pet. Wake up and smell the coffee.
George Tengbeh said “to prevent the parliament from talking about such an issue that is against our tradition and culture”. I think that is clear enough to literate people…it is everything to do with “Africans” Btw, no comment has yet been racist. You are the only one trying to introduce it…….

Exactly, considering that it was never a British colony and adopted it’s own anti-gay laws. I wonder if there was any right wing American collusion in this new legislation being considered, not too dissimilar from the Ugandan situation?

and why must our tax money go to suport this contry, I think we need to get our goverments to refuse aid to them and use the money for our needs here at home, also we must make sure that they are always refused a visa to come here.
Sorry guys and girls, I dont want to be anri these countries, butthey make us out to be something evil and we are not, someday we are going to have to get forceful to get our rights

If I was African I think I would be much more concerned about my continent and people always being the world’s basket case. Where is the concern about corruption, poverty, tribal warfare the list goes on. How gullible and almost childlike they must be to allow themselves to be distracted by homosexuality. Face upto your real problems folks, especially blatant corruption

It is nice to be able to feel morally and intellectually superior, over the “childlike and gullible” or “plain stupid” Africans. Lets punish them and cut all the aid! Irony aside, I think we should try to find out ways to actually help our gay brothers in Africa. We (Western donors) could retarget the development aid to give a larger share to lgbti and other humanitarian organizations and programs; we can keep talking with goverments and keep stressing the basic human rights; we can try to make contacts with African gays and listen what they might think would be the best way to help them.

The Love Of Liberty Brought Us Here, say’s their motto but my hatred for Liberia keeps me here, in the UK. It was ex-slaves, looking for freedom who founded that country, now it is another African cesspit and I am sure that Liberia’s founding fathers are turning in their graves. Maybe it would be a good idea to have a country where we can banish all the hate mongers, homophobes, religious fundamentalists, Westboro Baptists and the rest of the world’s vile trash and let them live together in a place where there are no pesky gays to hassle them. How about Liberia, and while we are at it, evacuate all the gay people from that country and resetle them in the west so they can enjoy REAL liberty.

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